from 217 miles east of the San Francisco Marina

The Magnificent Twelve

I was hoping to fulfill a reader’s request for a shot of the old Reno Laundry on Wells Avenue that’s happily being gentrified, but no go, as in no picture yet today with the afternoon pretty well shot.

SOOOOOOOO – you get a couple that I’ve had in my computer for a long time, always thinking they ought to be drug out and published, that there was a link between them somehow. (I’m already in the doghouse about a story about the Bishop’s Bendix in San Francisco, this beef coming all the way from Australia.) At this juncture, I remind viewers, this column is mostly about Reno, a bit of San Francisco, and precious little about Australia.